The end of March is lambing time on farms across the North of England. It’s a very busy time for our farmers who are often working round the clock to ensure the new lambs are safely delivered, the ewes know how to look after them, the lambs have had a drink of their mother’s milk, and that everything is generally ok.  After the recent cold weather grass is still not growing much so in addition to looking after the lambing they are also still having to make sure everything has access to plenty hay or silage.  Beacuse of all that it is perhaps no wonder that a couple of our farmers will be missing this weekend: Ann Gray from Ravensworth Farm and Carron Craighead for Middlemay Lamb will both be missing this weekend.

We are very pleased though to welcome back Brian from Northumbria Preserves, maker of fantastic jams and chutneys and the best roast tomato relish we know, and Tim Foxall, maker of spatulas that travel the world.

With Mother’s Day 2018 on Sunday this coming Saturday is the very best time to come and select some delicious ingredients for a special meal or a lovely Mother’s Day treat.  The ladies from Hexham Country Market will be back after their winter break, so you’ll have a chance to buy some of their gorgeous cakes, or buy a locally made marmalade for that special breakfast.  And while you’re thinking about breakfast, you could add some of the best bread in Northumberland from Bread and Roses, organic eggs from Askerton Castle and perhaps a rasher of bacon (or two) from Bywell Fish and Game.

The market will be open at 9am and run until 1.30pm

We’re delighted to welcome the Cumbrian Pie Company to the market this coming weekend as a guest producer.  The company is well-established  in Cumbria and has been expanding into the North East.  We’re delighted that they are now able to join us in Hexham.

The pies are all handmade with the finest ingredients and you’ll find an excellent range of flavours to tempt you.

Hexham Farmers’ Market has been without a regular pie producer since the very untimely death of Kenny, who was the Prince of Pies nearly two years ago.  We’ll not forget Kenny, but are very pleased that The Cumbria Pie Company is keen to take on the pie-mantel!

The farmers’ market in Hexham on Saturday 24 February will open for custom at about 9am and will run until 1.30pm

We’re delighted to be launching our new website today, 8 February 2018, and hope you’ll find it useful and interesting too.

Thanks to the work by graphic designer Marcus Byron from Hexham, all our publicity has the same look and feel again: you’ll see it reflected in our banners which are up around the town in the run-up to the market, in our flyers giving you dates for the farmers’ market, and in our fortnightly ad in the Hexham Courant.

Our new website has a facility to look up different categories of stallholders for the first time, so if you want to know about the meat or cheese producers that come to the market, you’ll be able to get that information at the click of a button from our producers pages

We’d be really keen to hear what you think about the new design, so let us know via our social media channels or the contact page on the web site